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As Nintendo seeks to keep its command of the mobile gaming market with the dual-screen DS handheld unveiled this week, Sony will try to make the market a dual-player game with its forthcoming PlayStation portable device, the PSP. Touting two 3-inch, color, LCD screens and two ways to connect wirele...
The major movie studios will copy the tactics of the recording industry in their attack on online film piracy. While announcing its intent to file hundreds of civil lawsuits against individuals alleged to have infringed movie copyrights by sharing files online, the Motion Picture Association of Amer...
SBC has jumped into the IP TV market, sealing a 10-year, US$400 million deal with Microsoft to provide television services using the software giant's TV Internet protocol television edition software platform. Microsoft has been trying to crack the TV market for years, investing billions of dollars i...
Tesco, the UK retail giant that sells everything from groceries to insurance, has opened its own online music market. The download site contains about half a million song files in the Windows Media Audio (WMA) format. IPods, which have captured more than 50 percent of the UK market, do not play WMA ...
Another entertainment industry group has decided to try to staunch the flow of file-sharing by suing those who participate. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) announced Thursday that it will go the route of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which since September 200...
Take-Two Interactive Software, owner of the "Manhunt" video game that was banned in New Zealand and which sparked the adoption of new video/CD purchase and rental rules in Canada, recently announced a partnership with one of the members of the record label cartel that's currently suing p2p users aro...
A version of the popular "Halo 2" video game for Microsoft's Xbox platform has appeared online in an act of digital piracy. While games figure as the least pirated digital entertainment medium, falling far below music and movies, "there was going to be piracy, no matter what," Yankee Group senior an...
Nintendo is enforcing its dominance in the portable gaming world with the launch of its wireless Nintendo DS, a handheld double-screen console that will allow players to control games with touch or voice, monitor two-screen action and even compete wirelessly with others. Nintendo DS will launch in t...
Call it the Pleasure PC. Digital Living Space. Or, as Microsoft would like you to think of it, Media Center. Vendors and analysts have been flagging a new era for home PCs, and there is more than just talk in the air. Dell, Gateway, and other computer makers are busy touting PCs optimized for entert...
Sony, maker of the first portable music device in the Walkman cassette player, has switched course on the format of its latest digital players, which will now support the consumer format of choice: MP3. Sony's MP3 move is a departure from its earlier policy of supporting only its own Atrac format, w...
While consumers have been slow to move to digital TV, that hasn't deterred Congress from trying to goose the transition process. That process includes snatching back spectrum currently used to broadcast over-the-air analog TV channels -- a process that, under current law, is supposed to occur by 20...
The Recording Industry Association of America is continuing to wage its war against peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. On August 25, the RIAA filed new copyright infringement lawsuits against 744 individuals on a variety of peer-to-peer platforms, including eDonkey, Limewire, Grokster and Kazaa. Me...
At long last, the noses of computer users have a purpose beyond holding up eyeglasses and balancing spoons. Thanks to a Canadian scientist, now you can use your nose to control your computer. Dmitry Gorodnichy of the Institute of Information Technology in Ottawa, Canada, has created the "Nouse," a c...
XM Satellite Radio today announced the introduction of an online, commercial-free radio service, to premier in October, the company said in a statement. The Washington, D.C.-based company will charge a monthly fee of $7.99 for the service, called XM Radio Online. Customers who already subscribe to X...
As it has been suing thousands of computer users accused of illegally trading copyrighted music online with peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, the Recording Industry Association of America has also been polluting P2P networks with bogus and corrupted media files to discourage P2P use. Now the industry g...
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